Alhaji Balarabe Musa, Second Republic Governor of Kaduna State, has passed on.
His death was announced by his political associate and former senator, Shehu Sani via his Twitter handle.
He wrote: “Alhaji Balarabe Musa has died. May Allah forgive his souls and grant him Aljanna firdausi.Amin.”
Balarabe Musa, 84, was elected governor of Kaduna State in 1979 but was later controversially impeached and removed from office.
Born August 21, 1936, Mr Musa was the first civilian governor of Kaduna State in Nigeria’s Second Republic on the platform of the defunct Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, led by the fiery and left leaning politician, the late Alhaji Aminu Kano, before he was impeached on June 23, 1981.
Musa was a progressive and he worked with people of like minds to mobilise against the military junta of the late Sani Abacha.
He was the leader of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), a coalition of opposition parties, in the Fourth Republic.
Before his death, he was the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP).
